Procurement Business Partner

5 days ago

West Midlands, United Kingdom The National Lottery Community Fund Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 234058**Salary**:

- £27,084 - £32,000**Grade**:

- Other**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Procurement and Contracts Management**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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Location
- East Midlands (England), West Midlands (England)About the job

**Summary**:
***We are collaborative, trusting, and supportive Procurement team looking for a Procurement Business Partner to join our existing team. The procurement projects and contracts you will work on, and deliver are vital in supporting communities across the UK.

Reporting into the Head of Procurement, you will be able to build trusting collaborative relationships with key stakeholders, including Department of Digital, Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), and the Crown Commercial Service (CCS).

**Job description**:
You will work across the Fund offering procurement advice to ensure compliance with public sector procurement rules and regulations, identify opportunities, key deliverables, and solutions. You will also manage the delivery of procurement projects through to contract award.

The role will also involve reviewing policies and procedures to implement lean principles, utilising e-procurement systems, reporting, contract management and interpreting data where appropriate to inform better decision making and improvements within the function and the wider organisation.

Strong Influencing skills, communication skills, knowledge of public sector procurement rules and project management skills are crucial.

**Responsibilities**:
**Essential Criteria**
- Knowledge of Public Sector Procurement Rules and Regulations
- Comfortable working with variable customer needs, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to build trusting and long-lasting relationships
- Good communication skills and ability to influence people and manage difficult conversations
- Good Project Management Skills

**Desirable Criteria**
- Procurement/Finance/Business related qualification or willing to work towards MCIPS qualification and other appropriate learning and development opportunities
- Understanding of Social Value relating to Public Sector Procurement
- Awareness or experience of Contract Management principles and how to develop and implement them

**Benefits**:
We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.

We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:

- Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
- Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
- Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Season ticket and cycle to work loans
- Paid volunteering leave

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**Security**:
- See our vetting charter.- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Selection process details**:
This role closes on Sunday 4th September.

Your supporting statement should align to the essential and desirable criteria found in the job advert.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Nationality requirements**:

- Open to UK nationals only.**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.-
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